English

Proper noun

Trotter

1. A surname​.

Noun

Trotter ‎(plural Trotters)

1. (soccer) someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
2. (basketball, slang) A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

English

Noun

trotter ‎(plural trotters)

1. A horse trained for harness racing^W.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

2. The foot of a pig or sheep.
   • 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French trotter, from Old French trotter, troter ‎(“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottāre, *trotāre ‎(“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn ‎(“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną ‎(“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreu-, *derə-, *drā- ‎(“to run, escape”). Cognates: see English trot. More at tread.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.te/

Verb

trotter

1. (usually of a horse) to trot

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trottiner
• trottoir